Somehow in the mind I hadn't realised that it was quite so recently that I finally started playing guitar again.
I don't remember exactly when I finally took it out of its case, for the first time in many months, but I guess it wasn't long after I wrote that last post.
Unfortunately the plan to go record with Neil didn't pan out. Nevertheless we are underway. E/Ne has already put together a rough mix of the track I sent him. As I think I wrote already, Mick is providing the vocals for the track. On top of the lo-fi phone recording of his, which I sent to E/Ne, he recorded some alternate takes, at E/Ne's suggestion.
Next up is another track that has no name as yet. I came up with guitar piece the day I found out my dad had died. I started working on this again and had an idea to use part of a recorded conversation I had with my dad about music to go with this instrumental.
I uploaded a clip of me playing around with this guitar piece and Mick once again wrote some lyrics. I hadn't suggested it, but I'm not against it. The slightly spooky part was that he chose to write lyrics about his own deceased father. I hadn't told him about about the context of my original creation of the music.
With me being back in Glasgow and meeting up with Neil not possible at the moment. I decided to embrace the DIY direction of this record and recorded my guitar part in my walk in cupboard here in Glasgow. I've since come up with an extra guitar part. Mick will soon record his vocals—he told me he planned to today, but he shouted himself hoarse at the football yesterda.
There's no particular rush just now anyway.
What will be next after this track I don't yet know. Maybe I'll put my efforts into one of the songs I had ready. I've been playing it a bit recently and after so long away from it, I'm not sure if I'm totally happy with the arrangement. If it needs some tweaking, that's ok. I'm not going to rush these tracks.